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Has the climate in Çankaya changed?

Çankaya has warmed about 0.8°F since 2003.

About 0.4°F per decade, measured from Çankaya's official daily weather records, 2003–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Çankaya's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Turkey.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
37 more nights
1970s
8 / yr
Recent
45 / yr
Colder winters — more frosts
Average temperature
+0.8°F
1970s
56.3°F
Recent
57.1°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
32 more days
1970s
3 / yr
Recent
35 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
69 more days
1970s
5 / yr
Recent
74 / yr
Wetter on average

Çankaya's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2003 to 2025.

52°54°56°58°60°2003: 57.3°F2008: 57.8°F2009: 55.5°F2010: 58.3°F2011: 53.4°F2012: 55.7°F2013: 56.6°F2014: 56.7°F2015: 54.8°F2016: 55.7°F2017: 55.3°F2018: 57.7°F2019: 56.6°F2020: 57.5°F2021: 56.3°F2022: 55.9°F2023: 57.5°F2024: 58.4°F2025: 57.3°Flong-term trend2003201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →